Vicente Silveira , the director of LinkedIn , confirmed Coming_to_believe , on behalf of the company , that the website was hacked Theft in its official blog .

The social networking website LinkedIn was hacked Theft on June 5 , 2012 , and passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts were stolen Theft by Russian cybercriminals .

Owners of the hacked accounts were no longer able to access Having_or_lacking_access their accounts , and the website repeatedly encouraged Convincing its users to change Change their passwords after the incident Catastrophe .

Voices , formerly Associated Content , was hacked Theft in July 2012 .